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Unseen Beatles (DVD)

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There are a couple of surprises in store for amateur historians of Beatlemania on The Unseen Beatles, particularly home-movie footage by a fan who attended the band's famously final concert in San Francisco's Candlestick Park, 1966. The images seen here don't show the Beatles playing so much as they underscore how primitive the group's concert preparations were for such a sizable performance space. Received wisdom throughout many decades since the Beatles played live is that the disgruntled group couldn't hear itself over the screaming masses. The Unseen Beatles suggests, alternatively, that the band's management and general touring operation were well behind the demands of shows held in large arenas and stadiums.

Anyone with a passing knowledge of Beatles lore will recall that the group decided in 1966 to stop its many years of relentless touring with a final swing through America, focusing thereafter on increasingly experimental and accomplished work in the studio. The Unseen Beatles revisits the trail of life-threatening disasters that led them to give up the road for good, drawing on interviews with the Fab Four's associates (road manager Tony Bramwell, press officer Tony Barrow) and gathering a wealth of archival and personal film material. Various and familiar harrowing incidents--including stifling security measures in Japan to protect the Beatles from assassins and the group's nightmarish experience in the Philippines after enraging Imelda Marcos--are impressionistically recounted here. Perhaps more unique to Beatles fans is this BBC documentary's assertion that manager Brian Epstein could have handled touring resources better and been more creative about putting on safe, musically satisfying concerts attended by tens of thousands of people.

At times, the 50-minute The Unseen Beatles is too ambitious for its own good. Inadequate profiles of the personalities of John, Paul, George, and Ringo suggest how the Beatles grew apart as men. But in a show focused on the end of the band as a live act, The Unseen Beatles doesn't say enough about how the group's decision to end touring was fueled in part by individual needs for domestic life and to privately engage in intellectual, artistic, and religious pursuits. The program's musical score, including some of the most funereal sounds of Chopin and Mozart, is truly bizarre (occasional snatches of a generic Merseybeat sound are more appropriate). Famous faces from the Beatles' career--such as A Hard Day's Night director Richard Lester--linger on screen without even brief identification or acknowledgement. But despite these minor problems, The Unseen Beatles has a significant contribution to make toward understanding why the Beatles altered their priorities mid-career and freed themselves to make the likes of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. --Tom Keogh

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"The Unseen Beatles" is a fascinating look at the group's chaotic touring history during 1963-66. After viewing this BBC documentary, one understands why the Fab Four spent their remaining years as a studio band. Featuring several first-person accounts and some rare footage (including home movies from the final concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park), the overall film reveals a darker, more harrowing portrait of Beatlemania - the flip side of "A Hard Day's Night."

If you simply must buy anything with the words "The Beatles" on it because you're an obsessive Beatle fan, then buy The Unseen Beatles. Otherwise, don't waste your time and money.

There is indeed some "rare and previously unseen footage" in this DVD, but it struck me that it was "previously unseen" because whoever took it or considered it for air time realized it didn't inform or entertain very much. It didn't add anything new to our knowledge of The Beatles, their history or artistic significance.

As one of the aforementioned obsessive Beatle fans, I didn't learn anything new or gain any further insights into them. "The Beatles Anthology" video would tell this story (plus the story of the rest of their career) just as well or better, and from The Beatles' perspective.

For a more objective, outsider's perspective, I recommend two excellent books: the very enjoyable "Shout" by Philip Norman, and "The Beatles: The Biography" by Bob Spitz, which is well-researched, unflaggingly honest, and thoroughly detailed.

If you are a true Beatles Fan you will like this.It has some great black and white footage and some really cute scences with the "Fab Four".It is not the Best DVD on the lads I have ever seen and trust me I have lots of them in my Beatles collection of VHS and DVD's, but it is worth having. it is done well and it is very Clear. I really liked adding it to my Collection.

This dvd is obviously taken from a BBC documentary that was aired on British television, earlier this year, or late last year. I don't understand one reviewer's assesment that this footage has been seen, and the unseen footage was never shown because it has no entertainment value. That is ridiculous. If you are a Beatles fan you will enjoy seeing the rare home movies included in this small compilation. It is only 65 minutes long, and the price is right. It is a nice addition to your collection if you are so inclined to collect these things. And what fan of the group would not love to have little movies of Paul and John, hamming it up, by the pool. Also, there are home movies made by a fan who attended their last concert at Candlestick Park in 1966. An interesting snippit of time is captured, as you watch people setting up for the concert. Also, there are extended interviews with people associated with the group, like Tony Bramwell, Larry Kane, and Allen Williams. Although they don't say anything earth shatteringly, new, it is still very interesting because they touch on things that have always been intriguing anyway. Allen Williams in particular is not his usual sour grapes, woe is me, self. He actually seems to acknowledge how lucky he was to have known the group, and worked with them, and he also gives interesting observations. Tony Bramwell says, and has said before, that the Beatles had no responsibility. Their's was a carefree existance. This seems to miss the point, because although they didn't have to be at a nine to five job, they did have to be somewhere all the time, and the demands placed on them, especially the two songwriters, were 100 times more stressful than what a regular joe would experience. The fact that they were so proffessional at such a tender age, adds to their appeal.Read more ›

Although there isn't anything really bad about THE UNSEEN BEATLES DVD, I have to give a three-star (it's OK) rating.

I was under the impression that this DVD was going to show the amateur footage from the last Beatles concert at San Francisco's Candle Stick Park that was filmed by a kid who was there all day long. It does show some of that footage, but the BBC documentary really explains the entire 1966 Beatles tour and how it was full of disasters.

There are present day (2007) interviews with people who were actually there including journalist Maureen Cleave who wrote the article that kicked off the whole Lennon "Beatles are bigger than Jesus" controversy back then.

It does show ample amateur footage, including interviews with the Beatles themselves from back then, and really explains why the Beatles finally decided to stop touring and playing concerts. They went through Hell in Japan and the Philippines, which is really the straw that broke the camel's back. It makes you wonder why so many corners were cut because they really had inadequate security, transportation, and the whole Tokyo debacle could've been avoided had Brian Epstein booked them at a different location. Anyway, once you watch this documentary you'll understand why Candle Stick Park was the last Beatle concert (until the very last one on top of the Apple building but that wasn't really a concert per se). The footage isn't the best quality, which is to be expected, but it's OK and won't interfere with viewing pleasure.